Mission Valley Stories
Heymatt: Do you know about funny noises? Whenever I get on the I-8 in Mission Valley, my car is much quieter. Why is that? -- Robert Frantz, the net Perhaps your car is tiptoeing through …
“There were two different swimming holes. The girls would have one and the boys would sneak up there, and the girls would be swimming nude and we would try to swipe their clothes.
Michael's 1652 Camino Del Rio North, Mission Valley 619-294-5891 Temporary tattoos allow the indecisive to ink themselves with whimsical abandon. The artwork rubs on with a damp cloth and can be washed away easily with …
Ikea 2149 Fenton Parkway, Mission Valley 619-563-4532 You'll get out eventually, but not until the crafty Ikea floor planners have routed you past every sofa and bookcase in the store. Once you mount the stairs, …
Lakeshore Learning Store 7510 Hazard Center, Mission Valley 619-297-8494 At Lakeshore Learning Center things are different. From 11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. every Saturday, little creators can test their artistic side at a new craft for free: …
Mission Valley YMCA, Krause Family Skate Park 3250 Camino del Rio North, Mission Valley 619-281-7885 Krause Skate Park lies along the San Diego River next to Interstate 8. Fifty thousand square feet of cement and …
A man told sheriff’s deputies that Juan Jose Hillario, an Indian living in Balboa Park, had suggested to him on an earlier occasion that they kill Mrs. Sandrock and rob the store.
Game Empire 7510 Hazard Center Drive, Suite 417, Mission Valley (619) 574-6740 Face off in a 2000-square-foot meeting room at Game Empire. The shop up front opened in 1994 and sells game supplies and merchandise. …
Staff Pro Security 411 Camino Del Rio South, Mission Valley (619) 294-3990 The big guys in yellow jackets used to be considered the enemy by many concertgoers, when a few head-crushing security guards earned a …
Zany Brainy 1530 Camino de la Reina, Mission Valley (619) 291-9500 5485 Grossmont Center Drive, La Mesa (619) 466-6751 10661 Westview Parkway, Mira Mesa (858) 547-8700 Stone Cold Steve Austin, the Rock, Mankind -- oh, …
Nordstrom Rack Mission Valley Center, 1640 Camino del Rio North, Mission Valley (619) 296-0143 Can't miss it, big yellow-orange building, visible from Camino de la Reina. Eccos, Birkenstocks, Dr. Martens...$160 shoes for $85, $120 shoes …
Nordstrom, Fashion Valley, 6997 Friars Road, Mission Valley (619) 295-4441 You can get an Elvis haircut, an Elvis jacket, wear an Elvis smirk, pick up an Elvis "Blue Suede Shoes" lamp for $37.99 on the …
Hot Topic Mission Valley Center, 1640 Camino del Rio North, Mission Valley (619) 542-8450 Other locations in National City, El Cajon, Carlsbad, Escondido www.hottopic.com This store brings rave, goth, punk, and retro attire together like …
"My major complaint is the elevator. It states at the elevator that it's only for the handicapped or press, but it's always full of other people. The elevator operators say that they have no control over it.”
Dear Matthew Alice: On my drive home, I pass by a house that's in a weird spot. It's a yellow house that sits between Camino del Rio South and Interstate 8, just east of where …
Murphy Canyon was named for Jack Murphy. Not the 1960s sports columnist who led the fight for a new ballpark, but a pioneer rancher who acquired about a hundred acres of the San Diego Mission land grant.
Roberto DePhilippis, the owner of the Butcher Shop Steak House, got very angry one night last spring. In fact he had been seething since November of 1985, when his landlord, the Plaza International Hotel in …
"They’re all gone now. Bulldozed out by the freeway in ’49 and then the stadium. My father bought this land in 1896. My mother used to take the milk into town in a horse and buggy."